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Bratislava is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city proper is about 479,000, the wider Bratislava Region exceeds 732,000 inhabitants.
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THE MAGIC OF INK
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Ink painting is a traditional Chinese art form. Water and ink are mixed on an inkstone to create different shades of black, then applied with a brush to hand-made bast paper. The amount of water, the brush and the…
Anetta Mona Chiça, Lucia Tkáčová: Totems
Bratislava City Gallery
The installation Totems comprises a series of five unique sculptures made of burnt books on concrete bases. Individual book titles are not recognisable, however, as in the process of burning they merged into a complete…
ADAM SZENTPÉTERY: NETWORK
Slovak National Gallery
The exhibition Network, the first solo exhibition by the Slovak painter Adam Szentpétery to be staged at the Slovak National Gallery, offers a comprehensive overview of his more than forty-year career. The artist has…
Free fall
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Falling into Oneself When the name Patrícia Koyšová is mentioned, most of us think of cultivated, yet unconventional abstract paintings created with a compressor and airbrush. Amidst the flood of global and Slovak…
Tail Light (Retrospective)
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
JUST AS NATURE IMITATES ART (OSCAR WILDE), SOME OLD MASTERS IMITATE ME The creator of a programme of analytical painting based on the principle of trompe l’oeil (optical illusion). Member of the avance-retard artists’…
Bang?! Bang! 2
Slovak National Gallery
This is the second edition of an exhibition that charts variability of the predominantly Slovak art scene from the 1960s to the present. It builds on the Bang! Bang?! exhibition, broadening it and, in certain areas,…
Wait, what?
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Have you read those encyclopedias? About coffee, chocolate, sushi or tea? In them, Dávid Soboň illustrates what he enjoys and tells us about it. He has so much to say! He has a trick for this: he writes a short text and…
Beneath the Surface
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Ivan Ouhel’s work has a special place in the context of Czech art of the last decades. Although he was a member of the free group 12/15 Pozdě, ale přece and Umělecká beseda, his painting style always retained a distinct…
Maria Bartuszová – Being Nature
Bratislava City Gallery
“I want to work with clean principles. I believe that shapes, in and of themselves, have a powerful psychological impact – for example: angular, sharp, inorganic shapes convey a sense of coldness; rounded, organic…
On the Seventh Floor of a Dream
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
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Paintings / Sculptures
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
The work of Austrian painter Marcus Anton Huber is spontaneous, inspired by free thought flows and subconscious imagination. He creates according to the principles of psychic automatism – the creative method of the…
Satori in Cífer II
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Sveťo Ilavský is one of the prominent figures of the Slovak intermedia scene. His work cannot be confined to a single style or linear development. Operating between order and chaos, harmony and destruction, rational…
Tomáš RAJLICH: From Immediate Proximity
Slovak National Gallery
From the geometric spatial beginnings of the late 1960s, associated with the Club of Concretists, which aimed at the greatest possible international confrontation of the emerging generation of artists working in a…
English Tapestries
Bratislava City Gallery
The Primate's Palace, one of the most beautiful classicist buildings in Bratislava, was built in 1778 by Archbishop Cardinal Jozef Batthyány in accordance with the project of architect Melchior Hefele. The palace and…
BIATEC. Celtic Mint
Bratislava City Gallery
New permanent exhibition BIATEC. Celtic Mint, prepared by the Municipal Monument Preservation Institute Bratislava (MÚOP) in cooperation with Bratislava City Gallery (GMB), presents cultural heritage through visual…
Gothic Panel Painting and Plastic Art
Bratislava City Gallery
The exhibition was originally designed by curator Želmíra Grajciarová. It opened in 1998 on the first floor of Pálffy Palace following complete reconstruction of the building and its subsequent opening to the public…
Graphics Cabinets
Bratislava City Gallery
The Graphics Cabinets form the interior decoration in two rooms on the first floor of Mirbach Palace, having probably been commissioned by one of the original owners of the building. They are exceptional not only for…
Matej Krén: Passage
Bratislava City Gallery
The project "Passage" represents a kind of symbolic "shortcut across worlds" in which we exist or reside: from the factual, real world to the world of human culture, where reality is replaced by another reality – the…
Picture Gallery
Bratislava City Gallery
The Archbishop's Winter Palace, in its current classicist form known as the Primatial Palace, was built by Archbishop Jozef Batthyány (1727–1799). It was completed in 1781 and belonged to Hungarian Primates until 1903,…
The Virgin Mary as Queen of Angels
Bratislava City Gallery
The painting was administratively transferred from the Municipal Museum in Bratislava to the GMB Collection in 1965. It is classified under inventory number A2470. An original assumption that it had continuously formed…
Central European Baroque Painting and Sculpture
Bratislava City Gallery
The works from the Bratislava City Gallery´s collection included in the permanent exposition represent the Central European art of the eighteenth century. Selected paintings and sculptures provide a comprehensive…
Výzva na novú vizuálnu identitu GMB
Bratislava City Gallery
Vizuálna identita a grafické služby pre Galériu mesta Bratislavy 2021 – 2022 Galéria mesta Bratislavy vyhlasuje výzvu na predkladanie ponúk na tvorbu novej vizuálnej identity a grafické služby na rok 2021 - 2022\. Výzva…
Open Collection — Sculpture In the Interstitial Space
Slovak National Gallery
This unconventional installation of an open storage area, fully visible from the public space, offers a glimpse into the diversity of the sculpture collection at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava.
The Modern
Slovak National Gallery
The Modern tells the story of visual art in Slovakia in the first half of the 20th century. Our selection of works for it centred on the most important developments in domestic art between 1890/1900 and 1948.